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Children of One World

9+yrs Ease *** Overview: This project facilitates learning about the lives in other countries and is especially effective for comparing and contrasting schools in very different countries or localities. To see an example : http://www.grundschule-falkenstrasse.de/projekte/kinder/projektperu2.pdf Description: Firstly, ask learners what they would like to know about a child’s life in another country e.g. “How do  Full Article…

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Cartoon science

Nic Daniels using cartoons to make science fun…. Children love making cartoons and on the whole hate writing up science experiments so recording science experiments as a comic strip can be the way forward. We used Comic Life to create the ones above. It comes bundled with the Mac but entry level is free for Windows and that  Full Article…

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Wii bowling number chains

Use Wii Sports Bowling with younger children to practice number bonds to 10. Write down the number of pins knocked down and those left standing to create a number sentence (7+3 = 10 etc) Some children could be extended by writing down a three part sum with the second ball. Can also use with older children by  Full Article…

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Geo Tweets

I love this one from Tom Barrett “Use a combination of Twitter and Google Earth as a unique mapping activity or intro to using Google Earth. Ask your Twitter network for challenges, GeoTweets if you will. Do this in advance of the session to give people time to respond. Guide the children quietly – you  Full Article…

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Line and path maths in primary

Quentin D’Souza on TeachingHacks.com says “Use the Line and Path measurement tools to find distances that are challenging to measure.” I have used this in maths with an extra bit.  Find a regular shaped feature on a map – say a football pitch – and ask children to measure it using the line and path function.  Full Article…

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